Recycling Tips for Wine Lovers | The Glass Recycling Company

Recycling Tips for Wine Lovers – The Citizen

Wine lovers – Have a recycled bottle for glass

Glass is synonymous with quality and its many characteristics, from the smooth sleek texture to its translucent appearance and cool feel have led to the beautiful packaging becoming iconic for packaging wine.

TGRC’s core objective is to keep glass alive, and the company challenges you to make an effort to recycle this environmentally friendly packaging. Recycling is easy; you don’t have to start big to make an impact. The Glass Recycling Company (TGRC) has a heart for glass and so should you!

Here are some simple tips from TGRC to start your love affair with glass:

It is easy to recycle glass by taking glass bottles and jars to a ‘glass bank’ in your community. You can find a glass bank on the TGRC website www.tgrc.co.za

Or send an sms with the word ‘glass’ and the name of your suburb to 32310 eg: Glass Fourways
*R1.00 per SMS

You can often also recycle glass at your local garden refuse site and even certain service stations. Glass bottles and jars, both those used for food and beverages can be recycled.
In South Africa, it’s not necessary to place different coloured glass into separate banks or remove labels, you also needn’t wash the glass before placing it into glass bank.
Be sure not to include crystal glasses, Pyrex™, light bulbs, laboratory glass, windshields and window pane glass with your glass recycling as these types of glass have different properties from packaging glass.

For more tips and advice like TGRC on Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheGlassRecyclingCo or visit our website: www.tgrc.co.za to find a glass bank near you!

About TGRC:
The Glass Recycling Company (TGRC) consists of a team dedicated to increasing glass recycling in South Africa. We are passionate about ensuring every South African realises the value of recycling glass and actively embraces this practice.

We strive to educate, enable, encourage and inspire individuals to separate their glass for recycling, but do not physically collect or recycle the glass. Our focus extends beyond consumers and communities, but also on trade, industry and corporate South Africa. We also aim to uplift impoverished communities by creating income generating opportunities and skills development in the recycling sector. TGRC is funded by our committed members who manufacture glass or package their products in glass. We believe in the infinite potential of glass to make a real and positive contribution to society. At TGRC we are committed to show that glass recycling is worth the effort!

TGRC’s mandate is to increase awareness of glass recycling in South Africa. The team are passionate about ensuring every South African realises the value of recycling glass and actively embraces this practice. TGRC believes in the infinite potential of glass to make a real and positive contribution to society. TGRC is committed to prove that glass recycling is worth the effort! For info visit like the Facebook page: www.tgrc.co.za or www.facebook.com/TheGlassRecyclingCo/